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Boron phosphide (BP) is a (super)hard semiconductor constituted of light elements, which is promising for high demand applications at extreme conditions. The behavior of BP at high temperatures and pressures is of special interest but is…

Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue towards building the next generation of intelligent computing systems. It has been proposed that memristive devices, which exhibit history-dependent conductivity modulation, could…

As global data generation continues to rise, there is an increasing demand for revolutionary in-memory computing methodologies and efficient machine learning solutions. Despite recent progress in electrical and electro-optical simulations…

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This paper presents ASPEN, a novel energy-aware technique for neuromorphic systems that could unleash the future of intelligent, always-on, ultra-low-power, and low-burden wearables. Our main research objectives are to explore the…

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Unlike the brain, artificial neural networks, including state-of-the-art deep neural networks for computer vision, are subject to "catastrophic forgetting": they rapidly forget the previous task when trained on a new one. Neuroscience…

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Brain function results from communication between neurons connected by complex synaptic networks. Synapses are themselves highly complex and diverse signaling machines, containing protein products of hundreds of different genes, some in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Anish K. Simhal , Cecilia Aguerrebere , Forrest Collman , Joshua T. Vogelstein , Kristina D. Micheva , Richard J. Weinberg , Stephen J. Smith , Guillermo Sapiro

Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent hardware accelerators for machine learning. A popular platform for implementing them are low- or zero-energy barrier nanomagnets possessing in-plane magnetic anisotropy (e.g. circular disks or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Negative compressibility generated by many-body effects in 2D electronic systems can enhance gate capacitance. We observe capacitance enhancement in a newly emerged 2D layered material, atomically thin black phosphorus (BP). The…

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Nature inspired neuromorphic architectures are being explored as an alternative to imminent limitations of conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) architectures. Utilization of such architectures for practical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Saurabh K. Bose , Joshua B. Mallinson , Rodrigo M. Gazoni , Simon A. Brown

Recent advances in neuroscience together with nanoscale electronic device technology have resulted in huge interests in realizing brain-like computing hardwares using emerging nanoscale memory devices as synaptic elements. Although there…

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Developing intrinsic homojunctions without chemical heterogeneity remains a key challenge in future two - dimensional devices. Here, we report a geometry - defined metal--semiconductor--metal homojunction in bilayer blue phosphorus (BlueP)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Zewen Wu , Min Zhou , Yanxia Xing , Xianghua Kong

Neuromorphic computing promises to transform AI systems by enabling them to perceive, respond to, and adapt swiftly and accurately to dynamic data and user interactions. However, traditional silicon-based and hybrid electronic technologies…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 Robert Otupiri , Ripalta Stabile

Information in neural networks is represented as weighted connections, or synapses, between neurons. This poses a problem as the primary computational bottleneck for neural networks is the vector-matrix multiply when inputs are multiplied…

Recent advancements in measurement techniques have resulted in an increasing amount of data on neural activities recorded in parallel, revealing largely heterogeneous correlation patterns across neurons. Yet, the mechanistic origin of this…

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Traditional computation based on von Neumann architecture is limited by the time and energy consumption due to data transfer between the storage and the processing units. The von Neumann architecture is also inefficient in solving…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Dheemahi Rao , Bivas Saha

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks (PSNN) composed of the co-integrated CMOS and photonic elements can offer low loss, low power, highly-parallel, and high-throughput computing for brain-inspired neuromorphic systems. In addition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Luis El Srouji , Li Zhang , Mahmoud Abdelghany , S. J. Ben Yoo

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, has emerged as a promising approach for ultra-energy-efficient data processing by leveraging analog neuron structures and spike-based computation. However, its application in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Synapses play a critical role in memory, learning, and cognition. Their main functions include converting pre-synaptic voltage spikes to post-synaptic currents, as well as scaling the input signal. Several brain-inspired architectures have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Mohammad Javad Mirshojaeian Hosseini , Elisa Donati , Giacomo Indiveri , Robert A. Nawrocki

The influence of the epileptiform neuronal activity on the response of a CMOS-integrated ZrO2-based memristive crossbar and its conductivity was studied. Epileptiform neuronal activity was obtained in vitro in the hippocampus slices of…